Dry closet



Dec. 29V, 1925. 1,567,414

. P. B. BoGART DRY GLOSET Filed Sept. 21 1925 INVENTOR. I lfeze 7127. Eoy'f.

TORNEYS.

Patented Dec. 29, 1925.

PETER B. BOGART, 0F ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

DRY CLOSET.

Application filed September 21, 1925.

To @ZZ whom t may concer/n.'

Be it known that PETER B. BOGART, citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dry Closets, of which the following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to dry closets such as are used in schools and other public buildings in locations in which there is no sewage system.

More particularly the invention relates to the ventilation of such dry closets.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a construction of dry closet having ventilation so arranged that the draft will be at all times in a downward direction, thus keeping the unpleasant odors from rlsing into the room.

A second object of the invention is to provide this ventilation in a special manner for the usual urinal in such closets.

With the above and other objects in View as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a building showing the arrangement of the invention.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the urinal.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1.

In carrying out the invention as here shown there is provided a building or room having` end walls 10 and 11 on which are supported joists 12 carrying purlins 13 whereon rests the Hoor 14, air inlets 15 be ing provided between the joists and Hoor. In this building there is provided a suitable iioor 16 which extends from the wall 10 to a joint in spaced relation to the wall 11. At oneside of the building are a series of stalls 17 divided from each other by partitions 18, each stall containing the usual defecating stool 19 and at one end of this series of stalls Serial No. 57,643.

is a urinal having a back 2() of slate or other suitable material, spaced from the back wall 21 of the room or building. In front of this back 20 is a platform 23 having adjacent its rear surface a cover 24 also of slate or other suitable material, the platform and cover being spaced from the back by lugs 25, a water space 22 being thus provided which communicates with flue A.

The building is provided, next the wall 10, with an uptake 26 communicating with the space beneath the floor 1G by an opening 2T and in the lower end of this uptake is a ventilating heater 28 whereby the air in the uptake is heated so that au up draft is established. Below the floor 16 is a receiving floor 29. a iue 28 being thus formed between the foul air gathering room 3() and the uptake or vent shaft 26.

With this construction draft is set up in accordance with the direction of the arrows on the drawing and the air above the floor 16 is thus kept at all times free from disagreeable odors.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

1. In a dry closet, a building structure having back and front walls and a pair of Hoors spaced to form a flue, the space above the upper Hoor forming a room, an upwardly extendingr foul air gathering chamber at one end of the flue and communicating at its upper end with the upper part of the room, an uptake vent leading from the opposite end of the flue and opening upwardly outside of the room, and a urinal in said room having a back wall and a floor spaced from the back wall to provide an opening communicating with the flue.

2. In a dry closet, a building structure having back and front walls and a pair of floors spaced to form a ue, the space above the upper oor forming a room, an upward- 1y extending,` foul air gathering chamber at one end of the Hue und communicating at its uppei1 end- With the upper part of the room, an uptake vent leading from the opposite end of the iue and opening upWard- 1y outside of the room, a uiinal in said room having a back wall and agi'ooi1 spaced from the back Wall to provide an opening communicating with the fiue, and a recelving Hoor intermediate the first two floors and dividing the flue into two horizontally extending portions,

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

PETER B. BIOGART. 

